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377
Pittsburg, Pa.
Nov. 27 / 98
Pres. McKinley:
Dear Sir
Excuse me for addressing you, concerning the Constitution of the U. S. and being of a
female sex. It is a Resolution of mine concerning the lynching of the Negroes in Wilmington
N. C. and hope it will be approved by you and also a Title of Nobelty granted by you and with
consent of Congress we have resolved to organize a Military. I am quite young and have never
experienced but two nominations of Presidents Cleveland and yourself McKinley not knowing
much of politics but for my judgement I do not think we could find a man of more noblety to
wear the hat of Union. I esteem you of such power to impress upon Congress protection for our
negroes in South which is stated in the Constitution of the U. S. in Section 3rd he shall from time
to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their
consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. The U. S. shall guarantee
to every state in this Union a Republican form of government and shall protect each of them
against invasion.
Sec. 151 The rights of citizens of U. S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U. S.
or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition or servitude. Section 5 –
Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate a legislation.
Trusting in God and following the preamble and specification know as the Decoration of
Independence accompanied the resolution of Richard Henry Lee which was adopted by Congress
2nd day of July 1776 and this declarition was agreed to on the 4th. And the transaction is thus
recorded in the journal for that day.
Section 6. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and
public trial By an impartial jury of the State and District where in the crime shall have been
committed.
Our people are abridged of such laws in the southern states by the Democratic party. As I
noticed in one of our daily papers that one of our leading white ladies in the Southern states
stated Lynch them if it is 50 a day which has not been disapproved by the United States. I being
a Southerner myself I know something about the equal rights of them. Neither slavary nor
involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the person shall have been duly
convicted shall exist within the U. S. or any place subject to their jurisdiction Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. We are naturalized in the U. S. and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the U. States and the states where in they reside
No state shall make or inforce no law which shall abridge the privilages or immunities of
the citizens of the U. S. nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or equal rights
without due process of law or deny to any person within its jurisdiction on the equal protections
of the Laws I hope you will being the President of the U. S. take my resolution into consideration
to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them to
It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected
them with another. We hold these truths to be self evident as all men are created equal that they
are endowed by their creator by certain enailable rights I hope you will give this your strict
attention and I will look for a speedy answer concerning our Negroes in the Southern States The

377
Pittsburg, Pa.
Nov. 27 / 98
Pres. McKinley:
Dear Sir
Excuse me for addressing you, concerning the Constitution of the U. S. and being of a
female sex. It is a Resolution of mine concerning the lynching of the Negroes in Wilmington
N. C. and hope it will be approved by you and also a Title of Nobelty granted by you and with
consent of Congress we have resolved to organize a Military. I am quite young and have never
experienced but two nominations of Presidents Cleveland and yourself McKinley not knowing
much of politics but for my judgement I do not think we could find a man of more noblety to
wear the hat of Union. I esteem you of such power to impress upon Congress protection for our
negroes in South which is stated in the Constitution of the U. S. in Section 3rd he shall from time
to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their
consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. The U. S. shall guarantee
to every state in this Union a Republican form of government and shall protect each of them
against invasion.
Sec. 151 The rights of citizens of U. S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U. S.
or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition or servitude. Section 5 –
Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate a legislation.
Trusting in God and following the preamble and specification know as the Decoration of
Independence accompanied the resolution of Richard Henry Lee which was adopted by Congress
2nd day of July 1776 and this declarition was agreed to on the 4th. And the transaction is thus
recorded in the journal for that day.
Section 6. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and
public trial By an impartial jury of the State and District where in the crime shall have been
committed.
Our people are abridged of such laws in the southern states by the Democratic party. As I
noticed in one of our daily papers that one of our leading white ladies in the Southern states
stated Lynch them if it is 50 a day which has not been disapproved by the United States. I being
a Southerner myself I know something about the equal rights of them. Neither slavary nor
involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the person shall have been duly
convicted shall exist within the U. S. or any place subject to their jurisdiction Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. We are naturalized in the U. S. and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the U. States and the states where in they reside
No state shall make or inforce no law which shall abridge the privilages or immunities of
the citizens of the U. S. nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or equal rights
without due process of law or deny to any person within its jurisdiction on the equal protections
of the Laws I hope you will being the President of the U. S. take my resolution into consideration
to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them to
It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected
them with another. We hold these truths to be self evident as all men are created equal that they
are endowed by their creator by certain enailable rights I hope you will give this your strict
attention and I will look for a speedy answer concerning our Negroes in the Southern States The